Device for recording information on a data record

Claim 1

A device for recording information on a light-responsive medium comprising; a. a keyboard including a plurality of selectively actuatable keys; b. light source means associated with said keyboard and responsive to selection and actuation of predetermined ones of said keys to provide illumination indicative of the keys so actuated and in accordance with a predetermined code; c. a plurality of light-conducting rods; d. one end of each of said rods having associated therewith said light source means so that said rods may be selectively illuminated in accordance with said predetermined code; e. the other end of each of said rods terminating in a linear array in a predetermined plane to transmit the light to said plane when so illuminated; f. means adapted for coaction with the light-responsive medium to arrange same in juxtaposition to said other ends of each of said rods and to provide continuous relative motion between said rods and the light-responsive medium in a direction perpendicular to the linear array so that for each rod so illuminated an elongated line, representing the predetermined code, is recorded across the light-responsive medium in the direction of movement thereof; g. figure-recording means; including a plurality of selectively settable bands each carrying an array of figures, which may be selectively set so as to present figures which correspond to the keys actuated and said predetermined code represented thereby; and h. illumination means coacting with said figure-recording means to illuminate the selectively set figures and effect recording thereof upon said light-responsive medium coincidentally with the recording thereof of said predetermined code and in such a manner that the movement of the medium does not affect the clarity of the figures so recorded.

Claim 2

A device for recording information on a light-responsive medium comprising; a. a keyboard including a plurality of selectively actuatable keys; b. light source means associated with said keyboard and responsive to selection and actuation of predetermined ones of said keys to provide illumination indicative of the keys so actuated and in accordance with a predetermined code; c. a plurality of light-conducting rods; d. one end of each of said rods having associated therewith said light source means so that said rods may be selectively illuminated in accordance with said predetermined code; e. the other end of each of said rods terminating in a linear array in a predetermined plane to transmit the light to said plane when so illuminated; f. means adapted for coaction with the light-responsive medium to arrange same in juxtaposition to said other ends of each of said rods and to provide continuous relative motion between said rods and the light-responsive medium in a direction perpendicular to the linear array so that for each rod so illuminated an elongated line, representing the predetermined code, is recorded across the light-responsive medium in the direction of movement thereof; g. figure-recording means; including a plurality of selectively settable bands each carrying an array of figures, which may be selectively set so as to present figures which correspond to the keys actuated and said predetermined code represented thereby; and h. illumination means coacting with said figure-recording means to illuminate the selectively set figures and effect recording thereof upon said light-responsive medium coincidentally with the recording thereof of said predetermined code and in such a manner that the movement of the medium does not affect the clarity of the figures so recorded.